malaria

See also: Malaria, malaría, malária, malària, and malarią

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /məˈlɛə.ɹi.ə/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛəɹiə

Noun[edit]

malaria (countable and uncountable, plural malarias)

A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
Synonyms: ague, (archaic) paludism
(archaic) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
Synonym: miasma

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Translations[edit]

disease

Adyghe: техьагъу (teḥāġ°)
Afrikaans: malaria
Akan: atiridii
Arabic: مَلَارِيَا‎ f (malāriyā)
Armenian: մալարիա (hy) (malaria), դողէրոցք (hy) (dołērocʿkʿ)
Belarusian: маляры́я f (maljarýja)
Bulgarian: малария (bg) f (malarija)
Burmese: ငှက်ဖျား (my) (hngakhpya:)
Buryat: хумхаа (xumxaa), ᠬᠤᠮᠬᠠᠬ᠋ ᠠ (ᠬᠤᠮᠬᠠᠬ᠋ ᠠ)
Catalan: malària f
Chamicuro: chukchu
Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎠᏓᏗᏞᎲᏍᎬ (dalonige adaditlehvsgv)
Chichewa: malungo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 瘧疾 (zh), 疟疾 (zh) (nüèji)
Crimean Tatar: sıtma
Czech: malárie (cs) f
Danish: malaria (da)
Dinka: mayoŋ
Dutch: malaria (nl)
Esperanto: malario, marĉofebro
Ewe: asrã
Finnish: malaria (fi), horkka (fi)
French: paludisme (fr) m, malaria (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Malaria (de) f
Greek: ελονοσία (el) f (elonosía)
Guaraní: akanundu ro'y
Gujarati: ટાઢિયો તાવ (ṭāḍhiyo tāv)
Hebrew: מָלַרְיָה‎ (he) f (malárya)
Hindi: मलेरिया (hi) (maleriyā), सविराम ज्वर (savirām jvar)
Hungarian: malária (hu)
Icelandic: malaría (is) f
Igbo: ịba
Indonesian: malaria (id)
Japanese: マラリア (ja) (mararia)
K'iche': räx tew, ch’aqi’ tew
Kabiyé: wɩsɩ kʋdɔŋ
Kalmyk: безг (bezg)
Kazakh: безгек (bezgek)
Khmer: ជំងឺគ្រុនចាញ់ (cumŋɨɨ krun caɲ)
Korean: 말라리아 (ko) (mallaria), 학질(瘧疾) (ko) (hakjil)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەرزوتا‎ (lerzuta)

Northern Kurdish: lerzeta (ku)
Kyrgyz: безгек (ky) (bezgeq)
Lao: ໄຂ້ຍຸງ (khai nyung), ໄຂ້ປ່າ (khai pā)
Lithuanian: maliarija f

Macedonian: маларија f (malarija)
Malagasy: tazo (mg)
Malay: malaria
Malayalam: മലമ്പനി (ml) (malampani)
Maltese: malarja f
Maori: eku
Mongolian: хумхаа (mn) (humhaa), ᠬᠤᠮᠬᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (qumqaɣ'a)
Nahuatl:
Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla: atonahuistli
Nepali: औलो (ne) (aulo)
Newar: अउल (aula)
Northern Ndebele: uqhuqho
Norwegian:
Bokmål: malaria m

Nynorsk: malaria m
Old English: unlyft f
Oromo: busaa (om)
Persian: مالاریا‎ (fa) (mâlâryâ)
Polish: malaria (pl) f
Portuguese: malária (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤੇਈਆ (teīā), تیئیا‎ (tī'īa)
Quechua: chukchu
Romanian: malarie (ro) f
Russian: маляри́я (ru) f (maljaríja)
Santali: ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱤ ᱨᱩᱣᱟᱹ (pări ruvă)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: маларија f

Roman: malarija (sh) f
Sinhalese: මැලේරියාව (mælēriyāwa)
Slovene: malarija (sl) f
Spanish: paludismo (es) m, malaria (es) f
Swahili: malaria
Swedish: malaria (sv) c
Tagalog: pangiki, malarya
Tajik: вараҷа (varaja), табдард (tabdard)
Thai: ไข้มาลาเรีย (th) (kâi maa-laa-ria), ไข้จับสั่น, ไข้ป่า, ไข้ป้าง, ไข้ร้อนเย็น, ไข้ดอกสัก
Tibetan: འདར་ནད ('dar nad)
Tsonga: dzedzedze
Turkish: sıtma (tr), malarya (tr)
Ukrainian: малярі́я f (maljaríja)
Urdu: ملیریا‎ (maleriyā), باری کا بخار‎
Uzbek: bezgak (uz)
Vietnamese: bệnh sốt rét
Welsh: malaria m
Wolof: sibbiru
Yoruba: akọ ibà
Zulu: umalaleveva

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Italian malaria.

Noun[edit]

malaria c (singular definite malariaen, not used in plural form)

(medicine) malaria

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Audio (file)
Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria

Noun[edit]

malaria f (uncountable)

malaria

Descendants[edit]

→ Caribbean Hindustani: maláriyá

Finnish[edit]

Noun[edit]

malaria

malaria

Declension[edit]

Inflection of malaria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		malaria	malariat
genitive		malarian	malarioiden malarioitten
partitive		malariaa	malarioita
illative		malariaan	malarioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		malaria	malariat
accusative	nom.	malaria	malariat
accusative	gen.	malarian	malariat
genitive		malarian	malarioiden malarioitten malariain^rare
partitive		malariaa	malarioita
inessive		malariassa	malarioissa
elative		malariasta	malarioista
illative		malariaan	malarioihin
adessive		malarialla	malarioilla
ablative		malarialta	malarioilta
allative		malarialle	malarioille
essive		malariana	malarioina
translative		malariaksi	malarioiksi
instructive		—	malarioin
abessive		malariatta	malarioitta
comitative		—	malarioineen

Possessive forms of malaria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	malariani	malariamme
2nd person	malariasi	malarianne
3rd person	malariansa

Anagrams[edit]

Maalari, maalari

French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ma.la.ʁja/
audio (file)

Noun[edit]

malaria f (plural malarias)

malaria
Synonym: paludisme

Anagrams[edit]

alarmai

Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch malaria, from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [maˈlaria̯]
Hyphenation: ma‧la‧ria

Noun[edit]

malaria (first-person possessive malariaku, second-person possessive malariamu, third-person possessive malarianya)

(medicine) malaria, a disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

malaria (uncountable)

malaria

Italian[edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology[edit]

From mal- (“bad”) +‎ aria (“air”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /maˈla.rja/
Rhymes: -arja
Hyphenation: ma‧là‧ria

Noun[edit]

malaria f (plural malarie)

(medicine) malaria

Derived terms[edit]

malarico

Anagrams[edit]

alamari

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈɫ̪äriä]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈla.ri.a/, [mäˈläːriä]

Noun[edit]

malaria f (genitive malariae); first declension

(New Latin) malaria

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malaria	malariae
Genitive	malariae	malariārum
Dative	malariae	malariīs
Accusative	malariam	malariās
Ablative	malariā	malariīs
Vocative	malaria	malariae

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology[edit]

From Italian mala aria

Noun[edit]

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

malaria

References[edit]

“malaria” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology[edit]

From Italian mala aria

Noun[edit]

malaria m (definite singular malariaen, uncountable)

malaria

References[edit]

“malaria” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

malaria

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian malaria.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /maˈla.rja/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -arja
Syllabification: ma‧la‧ria

Noun[edit]

malaria f

malaria
Synonyms: febra, zimnica

Declension[edit]

Declension of malaria

	singular
nominative	malaria
genitive	malarii
dative	malarii
accusative	malarię
instrumental	malarią
locative	malarii
vocative	malario

Derived terms[edit]

adjective

malaryczny

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

malaria f (plural malarias)

malaria

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English malaria.

Pronunciation[edit]

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun[edit]

malaria (n class, plural malaria)

malaria

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ma¹lɑːrɪa/, [ma¹l̪ɑ̹ːrɪa]

Noun[edit]

malaria c (uncountable)

malaria

Declension[edit]

Declension of malaria
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	malaria	malarian	—	—
Genitive	malarias	malarians	—	—

References[edit]

malaria in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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From English malaria.

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malaria

malaria

malaria

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